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saha supA सह सुपा ONPANINI 21004

Compounds are formed by joining two nouns.

Example. When we join the noun araNye अरण्ये "in the forest" and the noun tilakAs तिलकास् "sesamum plants", we get the compound araNyetilakaH अरण्येतिलकः —

araNye अरण्ये "in the forest" + tilakAH तिलकाः "sesamum plants" → **araNyetilakAs अरण्येतिलकास् "disappointing things".

The former half is called /pUrvapada and the latter half is called /uttarapada.

The former half usually luks its /sup by supodhAtupr.... The araNye अरण्ये in **araNyetilakAs अरण्येतिलकास् keeps its seventh because some special rule allows that.

In writing I can tell a compound from two nouns because of spaces and hyphens. But /pANini is just describing a spoken language, so how can the difference matter at all?

(1) changed meaning (2) accent (3) in a compound, the former loses its /sup more often than not.